Sunday Picture Post: Out of Town

Posted on June 21, 2020 by crispina kemp

Still confined to places reached by foot… yet the sun is bringing out the flowers and the bees…

Cranesfoot: 17 June 2020

A tiny, tiny flower, often lost to sight by bigger flowers overhanging

Meadow Brown: 17 June 2020

Meadow Brown butterfly where it ought to be… in a meadow

Opium Poppy: 17 June 2020

I don’t usually take photos of garden escapees… this one was divine

Bramble & bee: 17 June 2020

The blackberry brambles now are full of bloom, and noisy as these little boney-beasts dive in

Foxgloves: 17 June 2020

The foxgloves have grown so tall since my last visit two weeks ago

Bindweed and bee: 17 June 2020

Not a flower left unvisited, bees burying their heads in every bloom

Breydon Water: 17 June 2020

And home again.

Breydon means Wide Plain or Wide Valley. That very pale grey line in the far distance (not the green) represents the old shoreline when this was the Great Estuary. Behind me is another mile or so of marsh which also was the old estuary. Everything changes with time.

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The Turn of the Year

Posted on June 21, 2020 by crispina kemp

image by Howard Wish on pixabay

Come join our hands
Come touch the sky
Come dance the dance
And thread the stones
Rejoice this day
The sun stands high
For on the morrow she cannot stay
Her southern lover draws her away

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Early Morning in Town

Posted on June 20, 2020 by crispina kemp

Greyfriar’s Way: 19 June 2020

Yesterday, took the small camera shopping with me. In its day, this was a road a hundred pubs. Now there are only two. The road runs alongside the town hall.

Down the Road, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek

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If I Open the Door

Posted on June 19, 2020 by crispina kemp

Love called for me today
I ducked my head
Said go away
I do not want
To feel these things
The doubts, the fears
That love will bring
I had built a wall
Had hemmed me in
And learned to live
Alone again

But love called for me today
If I open the door
Will it stay?

I blame Entangled for this, challenging me to write the love stuff….

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CCC84: His Old Sweetheart

Posted on June 18, 2020 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #84

Grandpa used to say he’d pulled the letters out of a bag to name his boat.

And we believed him.

Until we were clearing his things from his boat after he died, ready to sell the old berth, and found a letter.

From his wartime sweetheart. Postmarked Wehlau

 

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #84

Posted on June 17, 2020 by crispina kemp

CCC#84

Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN

Here’s how it works:

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:

  • Your creative offering is indeed yours
  • Your writing is kept to 150 words or less

If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN.

Curious about that name? You might like to read the Wikipedia page

What once was Wehlau now is Znamensk

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Lap Up That Pain

Posted on June 16, 2020 by crispina kemp

image: Joanquin Aranoa

Lap up that pain
That feeling mightn’t come again
You might find numbness follows
Fear inures you to another
Armour, thickened skin, self-protection
Grown and honed to impenetrable perfection
Lap up that pain
You might not ever feel again

To bring balance… for there are two sides to love

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To the Legend… a belated eulogy

Posted on June 15, 2020 by crispina kemp

image by Alexas Fotos

Mama called him obstinate
Too stubborn to change his ways
Papa called him obdurate
That hell awaited his end of days

But he rocked, and he rolled
Heels dug into that slippery road
Strutted along unheeding, refused the call
Sights on that place he knew so well
And as he swung, unchanging
He raised a finger in the air
Rather, he said, a fuck in hell
Than a sleepless toss, mon cher.

72 words for Sammi’s Weekend Prompt: Obdurate

Apologies for the language but it is what Oswald used to say, and I have cleaned up the worst. May he rest… or not.

 

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Sunday Picture Post: Dune Community

Posted on June 14, 2020 by crispina kemp

I’ve already posted several of the photos I took back in May when I walked along the river Bure, through Bure Park, and onto the dunes… now I give you my shots of the wildflowers there (those not trodden by too many feet!)

Devilsbit Scabious? Or Sheepsbit?: 18 May 2020

Tiny plant, easily missed. But whose ‘bit’ is it? It’s one I’ve never been absolutely sure on.

Sea Holly: 18 May 2020

Beware with bare feet. Those leaves are prickly.

Birdsfoot Trefoil: 18 May 2020

This trefoil has many regional names. The one I like best is Egg and Bacon.

Tree Lupin: 18 May 202

A total misnomer. As you can see, it’s not a tree, though it can grow to a shrubby 6′. It’s a common sight on the dunes of Norfolk and Suffolk

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Rush Hour Traffic

Posted on June 13, 2020 by crispina kemp

River Bure as it enters Great Yarmouth: 18 May 2020

The photo was taken during what used to be the rush hour. The bridge in the distance carries the main road in.

No rush, no hurry, no river traffic. Peaceful.

Peaceful, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek

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